[bushpilot1]

Why was New York doing business with the Slave states in 1860 putting $200,000,000 in their pockets. New York city pockets.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Why was New York doing business with the Slave states in 1860 putting $200,000,000 in their pockets

For the same reason that America does business with communist China today. Call it an "engagement policy."